- Andrew Delbanco, College: What It Was, and Should Be. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012
- Anne Husted Burleigh, ed. Education in a Free Society. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1973
- Edward Shils, The Calling of Education, edited by Steven Grosby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997
- Colloquium Reader
Background reading: Andrew Delbanco, College: What It Was, and Should Be (2012), 36-101
Session I: Principles of Governance in a Free Society
- Vincent Ostrom, The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-governing Society (1994): chapter 8
- “Res Publica: The Emergence of Public Opinion, Civic Knowledge, and a Culture of Inquiry,” 199-222; chapter 9
- “Polycentricity: The Structural Basis of Self-Governing Systems,” 223-228; and chapter 10
- “1989 and Beyond” Constituting a Self-governing Society (247-272, 25 pp.)
Session II: The Purposes and Charters of American Colleges in the Colonial and Early Republic Period
- Harvard charter documents (approx. 10-12 pp.) and http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/ma-1780.htm
- New England’s First Fruits (begin at p. 23)
- William & Mary charter document
- University of Virginia charter
Session III: The Dartmouth Case
- Oral arguments of Daniel Webster: Dartmouth vs. Woodward decision (1819) – Chief Justice John Marshall
Session IV: New Model Universities
- The Morrill Act, 1862
- Charles W. Eliot, “The New Education,” The Atlantic Monthly (February 1869)
- Daniel Coit Gilman, Johns Hopkins University Inaugural Address (1876)
- Lincoln Steffens, “Sending a State to College,” The American Magazine (1908/09)
- Frederick Jackson Turner, “Pioneer Ideals and the State University,” [commencement address at the University of Indiana] (1910) in John Mack Faragher, ed., Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner (1998), 101-118
- Henry P. Tappan, Inaugural Address, University of Michigan, selections (optional)
Session V: Rethinking the Political Economy of the University
- Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address
- Lyndon Johnson, Remarks upon Signing the Higher Education Facilities Act (1963)
- Lyndon Johnson, Speech on signing of Higher Ed Act 1965
- Henry V. Manne, “The Political Economy of Modern Universities,” in Anne Husted Burleigh, ed., Education in a Free Society (1973), 185-205; The Political Economy of Modern Universities
Session VI: The Constitution of Reform? Rethinking the Role of Governance
- Edward Shils, “The Modern University and Liberal Democracy,” in Steven Grosby, ed., Edward Shils, The Calling of Education (1997), 250-290